More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Our country needs a 'legal audit' - basically, sit two (non-politically-affiliated, but well versed in Constitutional law) people down with red pens, have them go over every single statute in the USC, and determine if it's Constitutional or not.
There will be obvious "this is OK" and "this is unconstitutional" stuff, and anything that seems like a grey area can be bookmarked for further scrutiny and discussion.
More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Our country needs a 'legal audit' - basically, sit two (non-politically-affiliated, but well versed in Constitutional law) people down with red pens, have them go over every single statute in the USC, and determine if it's Constitutional or not.
There will be obvious "this is OK" and "this is unconstitutional" stuff, and anything that seems like a grey area can be bookmarked for further scrutiny and discussion.
The whole USC has lets say 5000 statutes that mater to us all, and 50000 that are important to someone someplace. The USC is backed up by 20x the amount of federal regulation. USC will take 20 years to reform with a army of fair arbiters or take 1 year to reform the NSA with the budget process. Cut funding to the NSA to where they cannot pay the support contract with EMC to keep more than a month of global metadata on random access media and the project then has so much less teeth.
The SCOTUS has to make a big point and uphold the US Constitution prohibition against the General Warrants issued by other courts, unfortunately there is no good basic case to be made because who is the party to bring suit if VZ or Google are in bed with the NSA. Doesnt help that the General Warents are in the form of National Security Findings
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